Today Noam Chomsky is 90, Shiri Appleby, Kristofer Hivju, and Jeff Nichols are 40, and Emily Browning is 30. Today is also the birthday of Ellen Burstyn, Tom Waits, Jeffrey Wright, Nicholas Hoult, Jack Huston, Jennifer Carpenter, Mark Duplass, James Keach, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Rolston, Caleb Landry Jones, Patrick Fabian, Kenneth Colley, Clive Russell, Priscilla Barnes, Abdellatif Kechiche, Larry Bird, Aaron Carter, Chris Crocker, and the late Eli Wallach, Ted Knight, Louis Prima, Patrice O’Neal, Leigh Brackett, Hurd Hatfield, Fay Bainter, Rod Cameron, Johnny Duncan, and Jordon Parks Jr. Joan Bennett died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 80. Harry Morgan died seven years ago in 2011 at age 96.
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